The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25
THE CARNEGIE WEDDING.
Something About How He Made His
Money and His Friends.

MOllOJ cJ11S LID L 1CI1OO'
New YORK, April 23.-Miss Whitfield has
made what the world calls good match.
She has married the hard-headed little
Scotchman Andrew Carnegie, the million
aire ten times over Miss Whitfield is a
comedy woman over 30 years old. In stature
she is giant compared with her husband
Her father was a well-known merchant on
Broadway. She affects the Universalist
church, is cultivated, and in addition to
what means she has i'll her own right pos
sesses the snug little sum of $4,000, left to
her by a dead doctor named Blumenthal.
The marriage is said to be for love,
although the average woman in the matri-
monial way must find it pretty hard
thing to refuse a millionaire, let alone a
man who has made some pretensions to
authorship by writing "a Four-in-Hand
Through Great Britain" a ''Voyage Round
the World" and Triumphant Democracy"
besides numerous articles contributed to the
magazines. Mr.. Carnegie has also been very
liberal with his cash, and has endowed libra
ries and numerous charitable institutions
with large amounts. His fame is world
wide as the great American iron master and
proprietor of a number of provincial Eng
fish newspapers. The details of his career
in this country are pretty well known. How
he left Scotland when 10 years of age; how
his mother swept the offices of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Pitts
burg; how he became an errand
boy, and how the late Tom Scott took a
fancy to him and made him telegraph ope-
rator Afterwards, how he turned his atten-
ton to oil and iron and accumulated huge
fortune. Mr. Carnegie acts and looks like a
gentleman He has his weaknesses, how
ever, and the grave charge of the blacklist
ingratitude has been brought against him
with apparent truth. One of his foibleS is
the desire to link his name with great and
distinguished men, whose favor and good
will he has succeeded in securing in many
instances. What Mr.. Gladstone said to Car
negie; how Carnegie entertained Matthew
Arnold; What Mr.. Arnold thought of
Carnegie; on what points Col. Robert
Ingersoll differed with Carnegie as the
kind of headline he loves to see in the news
papers. 1t makes Carnegie little bigger
man and it does not hurt the other fellow.
One of the most striking illustrations Of the
millionaire's peculiarities in this respect is
in his simultaneously with Black, The
novelist. "The Strange Adventures of a
Phaeton" suggested to Carnegie the driving
of a four-in-hand through England. I'm
less there is some special bond of fellowship
or sympathy it is difficult to understand how
the clever Scotch novelist could become
the bosom friend of the man who has been
engaged all his life in making money through
the medium of coal and iron. The obvious
conclusion is that Mr.. Carnegie has the fac
ulty of buying his way-perheps not with
actual dollars and cents-into the friendship
and confidence of prominent people. As to
the charge of ingratitude, it is stated on
very good authority that Mr.. Carnegie, who
owed his good fortune to Tom Scott, was
the only man who refused to assist his bene-
factor in the hour of need. During the rail
road riots of 1873 Scott was in sore financial
straits. He wrote to all his moneyed friends
for help. Carnegie was the only one who
did not respond. Yet, withal, Mr.. CaIne-
gle is a very nice and agreeable man.
Is. Il. VALENTINE.